AWS Access Secret in Secrets Manageredit
An adversary may attempt to access the secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to steal certificates, credentials, or other sensitive material.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-aws*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 10 minutes
Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- AWS
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Data Protection
Version: 3 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.2
Rule authors: Nick Jones, Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Potential false positivesedit
Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be using GetSecretString API for the specified SecretId. If a known behavior is causing false positives, it can be excluded from the rule.
Investigation guideedit
The AWS Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.
Rule queryedit
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:secretsmanager.amazonaws.com and event.action:GetSecretValue
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
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Technique:
- Name: Steal Application Access Token
- ID: T1528
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1528/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
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- Formatting only